Women’s Suffrage Statuary in Capitol building
Extracted from:
The Architect of the Capitol
Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan
B. Anthony
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/suffrage.cfm
This group portrait monument to the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, which won women the right to vote in 1920, was sculpted by Adelaide Johnson (1859-1955) from an 8-ton block of marble in Carrara, Italy. The monument features portrait busts of the leaders of the woman suffrage movement. The portraits are copies of the individual busts she carved for the Court of Honor of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893. (See Week 2 Art & Literature)
From left to right the figures represent:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), president of the National
Woman Suffrage Association from 1865 to 1893; author of the woman's
bill of rights, which she read at the Seneca Falls, New York, convention
in 1848; first to demand the vote for women.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), abolitionist, temperance advocate,
and later president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association,
who joined with Stanton in 1851 to promote woman suffrage; proposed
the constitutional amendment passed many years after her death.
Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), Quaker reformer and preacher, who
worked for abolition, peace, and equality for women in jobs and education;
organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention, which launched
the women's rights movement.
[Note: the uncarved portion is retained to represent the first woman president when that occurs.]
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